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- The meme. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The explanation behind the meme, if necessary.[[/labelnote]] ExplanationLike this.
- Further mutations and successor memes, if any.
- Thanks to the atrocious voice acting in Resident Evil, we know that not only is Jill "the Master of Unlocking," but she almost became a Jill sandwich, too. As of Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Project × Zone, both are ascended memes.
- "STOP IT! Don't-open-THAT-door!" ExplanationJill's story starts off with her wanting to go back outside into the Cerberus-infested forest to look for Chris, but Wesker rather stiltedly tells her not to.
- ...Yeah...? ExplanationEnrico's rather casual response to Jill asking about him being in the caves despite him being quite wounded.
- Did you know weapons are especially powerful against living things?ExplanationWhen Barry Burton meets up with Jill and gives her a set of acid grenades, he describes them as a weapon which is "very powerful against living things". Funny enough, this was an actual hint about the acid grenades being more useful against monsters like Hunters or Yawn. This got changed to the slightly less narmy description of being "a can of fizz" that can "yellow and mellow" monsters in the remake.
- And that it looks like Forest was killed by a crow... or something. Oh my cod. ExplanationBarry's accented commentary on the corpse of Forest.
- "WHAT. What is this?" ExplanationBarry asks this quite often.
- "What is it?" ExplanationJill asks this one quite a lot as well.
- "Blood. Jill, see if you can find any other clues, I'll be examining this. Hope this is not CHRIS'S blood." ExplanationBarry's line upon finding the bloodstain in the dining hall.
- "Looks like we got to the root of the problem." ExplanationChris's Incredibly Lame Pun after poisoning and defeating Plant 42.
- "I have THIS!" ExplanationAfter handing over the acid grenades to Jill, Barry proudly flourishes his Colt Python revolver and says this when she asks if he'll be alright. This, again, got a slightly less narmy but less memetic revamp to "I like the buddy system we have here." Revelations 2 homaged it by having Barry repeat it as a Pre Ass Kicking One Liner just before facing the Final Boss.
- Jill Sandwich. ExplanationWhat Barry says after Jill escapes a crushing ceiling trap.
- What a MANSION! ExplanationIn the original game's Jill opening, Wesker makes this amazed-sounding comment of almost childlike wonder on the mansion.
- 4// Itchy. Tasty. ExplanationThe last line from a particularly infamous Apocalyptic Log, documenting the writer's infection with the T-virus ending with his killing and eating his friend. After reading the journal, the zombified author bursts out of the closet right next to you (or before reading it, in the original game).
- Albert Wesker wears his sunglasses at night.
- Resident Evil: Director's Cut: DualShock OST - Mansion BasementExplanationA song in the Director's Cut DualShock version of Resident Evil. It's considered universally to be one of the worst songs in video game history, and is frequently described as things like "a mob of farting clowns," "the theme of a depressed drunk guy stumbling down the street," or "an angry trombone argument." It was so bad that it circled back around to So Bad, It's Good, and it became a source of comedy when juxtaposed with the game itself.
- "Chris? ...Stop it! :(" ExplanationThe scene where Wesker reveals the Tyrant to Chris has risen in meme status in recent time, partly with the aid of a parody fan animation. Both the original and remade versions of the game get fun poked at them from time to time due to odd lines present in both (for example, the former's "Wesker, YOU'RE pitiful!" and the latter's "Wesker, you've become senile!"), but Chris bursting out laughing and Wesker's oddly disappointed-sounding response in the former is particularly infamous.
- Chris unfortunately can't read. ExplanationExamining the piano as Chris will prompt a message stating that the character can't read sheet music. A screenshot taken before all of the message's text finished appearing onscreen resulted in it being cut off like so.
- No matter how many times you play through RE2, Ada will never respond with "Do I look like a waiter?"ExplanationThroughout Leon's scenarios when teaming up with Ada, she will frequently run off on her own and Leon will inevitably shout "Ada, wait!"
- "When is the remake finally being released?" ExplanationCapcom announced in 2015 they are working on a remake of Resident Evil 2. Whenever a new game or DLC was released, people always asked this question regardless of it being unrelated to the remake.
- The answer, incidentally, turned out to be "January 25, 2019."
- X GON' GIVE IT TO YA! ExplanationThe remake version of Mr. X is a legitimately terrifying enemy that relentlessly hunts you down and cannot die no matter how much you try to kill him. Instances like these quickly turned into memes. Interestingly enough, DMX himself was released from a one-year imprisonment (due to tax evasion charges) on the same day as the game's release. Mashups of gameplay sequences of Mr. X doing his thing with DMX's signature rap came quick, and not even a month after release, there was already a mod replacing "Black Impact", Mr. X's in-game soundtrack, with the song.
- Redfieldposting/Chrisposting/FUCK MY SISTER, LEON! ExplanationA joke where Chris is a massive Leon x Claire Shipper on Deck, and is (often forcefully) trying to get Leon to date his sister and "continue the Redfield bloodline". The large amounts of Ship Tease the two receive here that canonically doesn't seem to go anywhere in future entries certainly helps. It also serves as an effective Lampshade Hanging of the No Hugging, No Kissing nature of the main characters, who have never settled down despite twenty years of adventures. Thanks to the recent surge of shipping wars among "Leon x Ada" and "Leon x Claire" shippers with the release of the remake, a bizarre shitpost starts appearing from /v/ posing as Chris Redfield, specifically BSAA Chris, urging Leon (as the character Leon) to conceive with his sister and continue the Redfield bloodline, often done in a more violent manner, including threatening to kill Ada. The◊ posts◊ spread◊ throughout◊ dedicated◊ Resident◊ Evil◊ shitposting communities on Reddit, Facebook, etc., with variants◊ starting◊ to◊ spread◊.
- YouTube has several videos and four songs about the Redfield bloodline.
- Modders were quick to turn Mr. X into Chris due to the meme's prevalence.
- Blue Umbrella Chrisposting ExplanationAnother notable variant of the meme, but instead, it's an inversion where the new Chris seen in Resident Evil 7 is a nicer guy that is happy to let Leon chase Ada instead of forcing him to conceive with Claire. As of Resident Evil Village, however, people have joked that he's turned his wrath on Ethan instead. And regarding the ending, there's jokes about Chris turning back to Leon after the latter has "failed to continue the bloodline."
- Leon S. "If it's not Wong, it's wrong/Only has dong for Ada Wong" Kennedy. ExplanationCopy-pasted rhyming quotes that counter the "Chrisposting" memes, commonly used by the Leon x Ada shippers.
- Claireposting ExplanationThe distaff counterpart of Chrisposting, where Claire begs Jill Valentine to get with Chris in order to stop him ranting to her and Leon about continuing the Redfield legacy.
- Jillposting ExplanationAlternatively, Jill hitting on Chris and being completely receptive to Claireposting, and the only reason why Chris won't pursue her is either because he is sterile from years of steroid abuse, insists that they are both Platonic Life-Partners, or is too busy trying to hook Leon/Ethan up with Claire to properly notice her advances.
- MY EXTRACTION POINT! ExplanationStated by HUNK at the start of The 4th Survivor, people have started making memes about HUNK being obsessed with his extraction point and nothing else.
- WE DO IT! ExplanationIn Yoshiaki Hirabyashi's video thanking fans for their passion in getting Resident Evil 2 a remake and confirming that it had been approved for development, he pulls back his vest to reveal a shirt printed with broken English expressing excitement over the success of the endeavor. Fans quickly latched on to the genuine enthusiasm he showed during the video and "WE DO IT!" became a rallying cry among the fanbase.
- Leon's faces from DP023's 500% Facial Animation series also became a meme of its own.
- Leon misunderstanding the innuendo Ada makes. Best exemplified here.
- Basketball player Rebecca. ExplanationIf you searched Wesker's table a sufficient amount of times (50 in the original, 3 times in the remake) you'd get a canister of film which you could develop to get... well, a picture of Rebecca in a green RPD sports bra, matching shorts and sneakers holding a basketball. While the photo itself is just plain Fanservice, a meme started growing around the photo: why would Wesker hold this in a table? Many explanations were given, some saying Rebecca was close to Wesker, the others going down a more unsavoury route. Became an Ascended Meme in the Resident Evil 0 HD remaster, where you could actually get this outfit for Rebecca to wear.
- Brad Vickers is a chicken. ExplanationBrad's been referred to as "Chickenheart" by the fandom ever since abandoning the team in the first game.
- CORRI, SCAPPA, C'E' IL NEMESIIIS!!! ExplanationTake this italian kid's lenghty Freak Out during an encounter with the eponymous monster, mix with Japanese techno song (the same that spawned the "am I waiting on an X" fad) and sprinkle with a silly animation. Serve cold. (By the way, it means "RUN, ESCAPE, IT'S THE NEMESIIIS!")
- "Nemesis got a nosejob!" comments became fairly common when fans saw his redesigned look with a silly looking, grotesquely placed nose.
- When Capcom announced that they created a model of Nemesis in order to be scanned (phrased as "created Nemesis"), gamers mentioned that the company is actually a front for Umbrella Corporation. Some gamers even said to start preparing in case a zombie apocalypse starts.
- A lot has been pointed out about the fact that a ransacked store prominently has an unopened pack of toilet paper on the counter. Cue the inevitable comparisons to the COVID-19 Pandemic and people's insistence on emptying stores of the stuff.
- Jill's final blow against Nemesis. The first two times was done with the railgun (while smaller than the original, it still qualifies as a BFG) on its stand. The third and final time has her grab the railgun and carry it by her own two hands while shoving it in its mouth before firing. Many jokes about her taking tips from her boulder punching partner have been made in various playthrough videos.
- Nest-3. ExplanationDue to Remake 2 renaming the Umbrella lab into the Nest and this game replacing the Dead Factory with the Nest-2, fans have been joking that the next remake game would also replace the last part of the game with a place called the Nest-3. When it was announced the the next game to be remade would be Resident Evil 4, the joke evolved into claims that Nest-3 would be called "El Nesto".
- "No, No, No. You print money! I like money!" ExplanationOne of Nicholai's lines, specifically him refusing to give Jill the T-Virus vaccine despite proposing to give it to her if she battled Nemesis and survived. Fans took to using a screenshot of the line to mock Capcom when rumors first started circulating about the remake of Resident Evil 4, despite low fan demand and Capcom having already ported it to every console under the sun, with Capcom making it because the game always sells well on whatever system it's ported to and a Remake would equal big bucks as well.
- "Bitch can't even swim." ExplanationOne of Jill's most memorable sassy lines from the remake. Jill says this line when she spots Nemesis coming out of the sewers, aflame after Mikhail's heroic sacrifice, and falls clumsily into the water of the nearby river. Jill assumed that would be the last she'd see of him. It wasn't.
- "HULLO, STRANGEAH." ExplanationThe merchant's infamously accented lines whenever you interact with him. He is so memetic that literally every single quote in his 1 minute and 43 seconds worth of quotes is a meme. No exceptions.
- "WELCUHM!"
- "WOT'RE YEH BOYIN'?"
- "WOT'RE YEH SELLAN'?"
- "NOT ENUFF CASH! STRANGAH."
- "OY'LL BOY IT AT A HOY PROYCE!"
- "Heh heh heh, thank yew!" and most variations of his distinctive laugh.
- "Strangah, strangah! Now thet's a weaphun!"
- Many of Leon's one-liners. Nearly everything he says is ripe with memetic potential.
- "Saddler, you're small-time." ExplanationSaid during Leon's confrontation with Saddler after killing Salazar, to which Saddler responds by dismissing Salazar as his "small-time subordinate." Funnily enough, Leon and the Merchant are both voiced by Paul Mercier.
- "You're (sic) right hand comes off?" ExplanationLeon's poor attempt at a sarcastic comeback after Salazar boasts he's sent his "right hand" (a Verdugo) to catch Leon. Made notorious because the captions misspelled it, as seen here.
- "No thanks, BRO!" ExplanationThe first time Salazar introduces himself to Leon and Ashley, he refers to them as his "brethrens" with Leon replying with this line.
- "Yeah, fat chance, Ramón." ExplanationThe remake version of the quote, while delivered in a more subdued way, still carries the same amount of irreverence as the original.
- "MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKKKKKKKEEEEEEE!!!!!" ExplanationMike is a helicopter pilot that assists the HELL out of Leon near the endgame, only to get shot down afterward. Leon's response to the death of a pilot he barely knew a minute is a heartbreaking cry and a vow of revenge.
- "LOOOUUUUUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSS!!!!!" ExplanationLeon has a similar Say My Name moment regarding Luis, but flubs the pronounciation in the process. (For the record, his name's Luis, pronounced "Luh-eees.")
- "Hey, it's that dog!" Explanation Early into Chapter 1, you find a white dog that's been caught in a bear trap that you can let loose. Later on, against El Gigante, the dog comes back with a cutscene reminiscent of a boss intro in its own right to help distract El Gigante and give Leon a clear shot at its back, wherein Leon says that line. The moment itself comes off as the first of several more actionized notes for the series. Generally, most fans either refuse to acknowledge that this dog can also be shot, or use it as a joking moral barometer as to whether your first instinct was to let it go, or put it out of its misery. Further exaggerated when the Remake shows that in that same location there's a dog in a bear trap... that has black fur and has long since died, making people think that Capcom took the dog out entirely by killing it off. Of course, when the game released, it was discovered that the dog was moved to Chapter 3, and was now given an even more dramatic reveal with lightning striking in the background and a full moon framing the dog.
- "Where's everyone going? Bingo?" ExplanationLeon's snarky quip after the entire village of Ganados suddenly stops its attack on him and runs off to the church when its bells start ringing.
- "Ada, wait!"
- More or less anything Salazar says.
- LEEEOOOOON!!! HYYYYYEEEEEEEELPPPPP... ExplanationAshley has one of the most annoying voices in gaming history, moreso if she needs help.
- Leon has a flashlight on his belt.
- I see that the President has equipped his daughter with ballistics too! ExplanationLuis greets Ashley with this loud crack about her large breasts. Referenced in the achievements of the remastered re-release, where rescuing Ashley grants the achievement "Secured the Ballistics".
- "Detrás de ti, imbecil!" ExplanationOne of the Las Plagas hosts' quotes upon attacking the player on sight which translates to "Right behind you, fool!" in Spanish.
- "Detrás de ti, imbesil!" ExplanationSpanish fans intentionally misspell the word "Imbecil" with an /s/ due to the seseo on the /c/ as seseo is more common on Latinamerican accents.
- NO WAY FAG Explanation Spawned from this drawing by PlagueofGripes (warning: very NSFW), parodying the ending wherein Leon rejects Ashley's sexual advances, despite the game emphasizing her feminine qualities multiple times.
- Tramp Stamp Leon Explanation (Mildly NSFW)Leon is famously a Mr. Fanservice, and a fan-made mod of Leon that edits his outfit to be a lot more Stripperiffic in conjunction with the more widespread "himbo" meme (of which Leon was commonly cited as an example) became infamous as an example of the hilarious power modders can wield over an ostensibly serious game, with fans drawing tons of fan art of it as well as wishing for a version of it to be made for the remake as well. Sure enough, one was made within days of release.
- Mouse Ashley/Moushley ExplanationSpawned from a Twitter post by Agrimmora portraying Ashley as a tiny cartoon mouse. In the same post, Agrimmora also asks players of the remake what they'd do if they booted it up only to find Ashley in that state. Moushley soon caught on and spawned a lot of fanart. Most if it either has her riding in Leon's pocket or shoulder, asking for cheese, making a variety of mouse or cheese-related puns, or crying out for help.
- If you shoot the lake a few times, a secret treasure appears. ExplanationIn both the original and the remake, shooting the lake three to five times before the Del Lago fight causes Del Lago to emerge and devour Leon in one gulp. In the leadup to the remake's release, players would instead claim you'd get some sort of prize for shooting the lake, likely a result of RE4 vets trolling new players.
- Leon falling to the ground. ExplanationSince 2022, a clip of Leon falling to the cabin's ground after coughing some blood (due to being injected with the Plagas parasite) had its audio modified into bass-boosted moaning (derived from another clip), and became viral as a reaction meme to anything that evokes shock and disbelief, amongst other uses. Some also created a version of it from the remake, while Devil May Cry fans modded Dante in place of Leon to have their own version as well.
- Many of Wesker's lines are extremely memorable to a lot of fans due to his Large Ham nature.
- "...ensuring complete. Global. Saturation."
- "...with Uroboros..."
- Albert Wesker has the right to have the right to have the right to have the right to be a god.
- Seven Minutes. Seven Minutes is all he can spare to play with you. ExplanationComes from a timed boss fight late in the game where Chris and Sheva run into Wesker and a brainwashed Jill, with Wesker declaring that he's only got Seven minutes to fight the duo. Most players can only run the timer down, but more well-equipped ones can and will knock Wesker out well before the time is up.
- "... Complete. Global. CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSS!!!!!" ExplanationWesker only gets emotional when screaming Chris' name. It only gets hammier and happens more frequently near the finale of the game.
- FAR TOO LONG.
- "...I need an egg"
- Chris has had ENOUGH OF YOUR BULLSHIT, BOULDER. ExplanationDuring the final Quick Time Events of the game, Chris has to move a boulder to help Sheva escape Wesker after the duo get separated. His desperation to do it as fast as possible and his sheer frustration over it not budging culimates in him punching the boulder with his bare hands to try and shove it harder. It works. Ever since, the scene has become a case of Never Live It Down for Chris as people make fun of how Testosterone Poisoning must be in effect for him.
- FOOTBAAALLLLLLL! ExplanationA Running Gag in ProtonJon's and Super Jeenius's Let's Play of the game in which Chris is a football player.
- "You will GIVE me an egg!" ExplanationIn multiplayer matches, Wesker will arrogantly demand any type of weapon from another player, as opposed to every other character politely asking for one. This extends to RE5's Joke Weapon, rotten eggs. After ProtonJon started using the soundbyte as a way to thank new subscribers during his Twitch streams, the line became a common subject for jokes, depicting eggs as Wesker's Trademark Favorite Food.
- Hunk Chris is back! ExplanationWith the first teaser trailer of the game being released, many have joked about how inconsistent Chris' hunkiness is within the games.
- "Sorry Ethan." Explanation (spoiler warning)Chris Redfield utters this to Ethan Winters before gunning down Mia.
- Continuing from RE2R, Chrisposting has made a grand return, with Chris now having his eyes set on Ethan rather than Leon.
- Vampire Mommy ExplanationThe reveal of Lady Dimitrescu had some... interesting reactions with the fanbase, most reacting to her stunning looks and... prominent chest. The name of "Vampire Mommy" comes from her white clothes, pale skin, black hat, and vampire-like abilities making her come across as the closest thing to a Classical Movie Vampire in the RE series, and you can probably guess where "mommy" comes from. Also, this resulted into rather amusing memes and comparisons with Tyrant/Mr. X, including this one which Crosses the Line Twice.
- Big tiddy vampire lady.
- Death by Snu Snu.
- "Step on me."
- Dimitrescu is a thicc MILF, and her daughters are goth girlfriends, all fitting into unashamedly, memetically known fetishes.
- MILF: Resident Evil ExplanationWhile the joke doesn't translate well into wiki format, the community have taken to stylizing the Logo Joke of the Roman numeral VIII showing up in "MILF".
- The only horror game where you want to get caught by the monster.
- Related to the above, "oh no don't chase me oh noooo haha", "jokes on you i'm into that shit", and so on.
- That's a HUGE bitch!
- 2.9m / 9'6" ExplanationIn response to her popularity in the West and East, the game's art director Tomonori Takano revealed that Lady Dimitrescu (accounting for her heels and hat) is approximately 2.9m / 9'6" tall.
- Ethan's multiple Fingore and An Arm and a Leg moments, carrying over from 7, have led to a lot of hand jokes about how little his injuries actually matter. His perceived himboism has even led some to joke how he'll do basically anything without safety gloves.
- Many have taken to joking that Chris' section is actually a Call of Duty game.
- One of the villains being named Heisenberg inevitably led to a bunch of Breaking Bad jokes.
- Lady Dimitrescu: Vampire Streamer ExplanationOne picture of Lady Dimitrescu during her call with Mother Miranda has been angled in Photograph mode and then photoshopped to make her look like she's a YouTube or Twitch streamer who has to deal with perverted fans and trolls, especially if that troll is Heisenberg.
- People calling Lady Dimitrescu ExplanationA popular scene for edit fodder is to take a picture of Lady Dimitrescu on the phone, and then add a◊ picture of◊ someone else◊ on the phone (or, less frequently, edit in audio) to make it seem like she's getting called by random characters.
- Dimitrescu throwing her vanity. ExplanationAt the end of this scene, she calmly hangs up the phone disappointed with Mother Miranda's insistence that Ethan be captured in decent condition, and then the moment she's sure Miranda isn't listening, throws a fit and tosses her vanity across the room before resuming her hunt for Ethan. The scene became a frequent reaction for assorted rage-inducing moments, and eventually received acknowledgement in the game's Mercenaries DLC as a cooldown-based attack she can use.
- Motherfucker Miranda. Explanation (spoilers)With Mother Miranda being revealed as the true mastermind behind the events (and the entire franchise), calling her with the added "Motherfucker" prefix has just become more appropriate, considering Ethan swears a lot.
- B I T C H. Explanation Heisenberg almost exclusively refers to both Dimitrescu and Miranda by calling them bitches during the segment in his factory, including one very satisfying line-read when he's explaining his plans to Ethan. YTP creator FrozenCereal, following making a poop of RE8, made that one clip a Running Gag in all his later videos.
- Chadthan ExplanationA meme that pokes fun at the fact that despite being the most ordinary character of the Resident Evil crew, Ethan has accomplished just as much (if not more) than the other protagonists of the series (including but not limited to: being the only main character who is Happily Married with a biological child, tearing through the Molded Bakers and later an entire village, recovering from nearly any injury that would've crippled or killed a normal person, reattaching his severed limbs back to himself like an arts and crafts project, and constantly defying death to the point where he can stand his heart being ripped out of his own body, albeit for only a while longer). Usually accompanied with an image of him with something reading out his various feats.
- Billy Coen can fit a grenade launcher in his pants. ExplanationSaid by Billy himself in RE0.
- Mass Production? RIDICULOUS!!! ExplanationShouted by Greg in the intro for the final level of the first Outbreak. When played online, it was common tradition not to skip the cutscene until after this line had played.
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